How does folk dance help us in understanding the culture of people in different places?

In our country, the Philippines also have different traditions and diverse culture that cannot be
taken away from. I think that folk dancing is another way we can identify and understand
furthermore of their culture, and to have a background in influence and learning. This diverse
culture speaks in different meanings and different beliefs that they believe in. For instance,
people in Mindanao dance Singkil. Singkil means “to entangle the feet with disturbing objects
such as vines or anything in your path”. It is a cultural dance for Maranao people that is derived
from the folklore of an hindu indian epic, Ramanaya. Meanwhile, it is not a typical dance that you
can see in other islands and places of our country. In Luzon, some people dance Binasuan.
Binasuan originated at Pangasinan and the meaning behind it was “with the use of drinking
glasses”. It is dedicated to the feast of farmers, having a good harvest. It is challenging in a way
that people use glass that should maintain balance while dancing.

To conclude, in different places we see different cultures. The influence and colonization created
a major shift in why we have different belief systems, tradition and culture. Folk Dance helps to
preserve the history and the traditions of one’s culture. It can also help us to identify different
ethnic groups and what are the origins of indigenous people we belong to. Moreover, no matter
how diverse a group we are, we still are Filipinos that preserve a culture through dancing.

What are the values that can be seen to the people who are dancing folk dance?

There are a lot of core values that can be seen to the people who were dancing folk dance. It is
Unity, Ability to Dance, Patriotism and more. As such, these values also represent the different
aspects of life that they celebrate like love, war, good harvest, nature, health, peace and life.
These values can be adopted through time and someday can give back to the generations that
may come. In addition, the value of unity represents so much in folk dancing. Not only in the
movements or the dance itself, it gives unity through people how they celebrate it, how they have
strong connections within their beliefs, and to unify their traditions. It can also be the ability to
dance freely. Anyone can dance folk dance but it is much better if there is accompaniment. Then
having Patriotism in our country. Some folk dances were dedicated to our home land, and it is
giving way of appreciation for our independence. Lastly, the value of expressing yourself. I think
folk dances are a form of art that always gives meaning and there would always be stories
behind it. To be able to express yourself is through the movements of your body, how you
execute it, and how you would deliver the message within that dance. I think that this value is
beautiful, just being true to yourself and to your feelings.
How does folk dance affect our health in terms of Physical, Mental, and Social aspects?

There are a lot of beneficiaries of dancing folk dance in terms of our health, such as:
- Social Aspect: The uniqueness of Folk Dancing is that it will not stand alone by one
participant, it should be danced by a group. I think it is commonly danced in the
community and it shows the aspect of camaraderie and friendship. It is healthy in a way
that we can be able to communicate socially, and we can learn different ideas and
thoughts from folk dancing from other people. As such, this will give us a broader
knowledge on how we can truly understand and how they stand their beliefs in folk
dancing in different cultures.
- Mental Aspect: As a mental health advocate, dancing is also a form of relieving your
stress and another way to cut yourself from the problems around you. I think that it is also
the same purpose of folk dancing, where you can enjoy and not worry about the things
that bothers you. Just what I've said before, the value of folk dancing is through
expressing your feelings and emotions. This is a good platform to release all the
negativity, and to choose your mental health. In relation to this, the pandemic is the
culprit for everyone’s mental health, that is why we should find ways to relieve and
disconnect ourselves to the problems around us to start connecting to the place you’d
never expected to be, like folk dancing.
- Physical Aspect: There are many physical aspects that folk dance has given to us, such
as improving muscle strength, endurance, and also our condition to heart and lungs.
Furthermore, It can also increase aerobic fitness, coordination, agility and flexibility. It can
also sharpen our mind, especially in memorizing the steps in dancing.

How can you promote folk dance in an environment wherein dancing hip-hop and contemporary
dances are in trend?

Folk dancing is one of the most important aspects of our culture since it aids in the improvement
and promotion of the traditional way of life in our country. Many Filipinos rely on folk dancing
these days because they desire to restore our forefathers' Philippine traditional heritage.
Folk dancing reveals the personalities of people in different cultures. The distinctions between
other countries and our own help us understand other people's perspectives. Folk dancing
attacks individuals in the same manner that modern dance does. Furthermore, we can promote
folk dancing through utilizing the use of technology and social media applications such as
facebook, twitter, tiktok and more. Millennials are aligned to these applications nowadays and we
should maximize the use of social media. In addition, aside from the Physical Education subject,
we should promote more through inviting everyone in dance lessons online. I think that folk
dancing could be enhanced more into a new and deeper meaning and music, but the meaning
and values stay the same.
The Third Industrial Revolution, or Digital Revolution, began in the
late 1900s and is characterized by the spread of automation and
digitization through the use of electronics and computers, the
invention of the Internet, and the discovery of nuclear energy. This
era witnessed the rise of electronics like never before, from
computers to new technologies that enable the automation of
industrial processes. Advancements in telecommunications led
the way for widespread globalization, which in turn enabled
industries to offshore production to low-cost economies and
radicalize business models worldwide.
Timeline highlights:
1969: The US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network (APARNET) develops many of the
protocols used for internet communications today.
1972: The Japanese Waseda University completes the WABOT-1
project, creating the world’s first full-scale intelligent humanoid
robot.
1973: Ethernet is invented, the first system for the transmission of
information between computer systems.
1974: The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) is born with the
introduction of a commercial version of APARNET, known as
Telenet.
1983: Ethernet is standardized. The Domain Name System (DNS)
establishes.edu, .gov, .com, .org, and .net system for naming
websites.

1984: William Gibson, author of cyberpunk novel Neuromancer,

coins the term ‘cyberspace’
1986: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are linked to
Personal Computers (PCs)

1989: Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the European Organization for

Nuclear Research (CERN) develops the HTML language and
introduces the World Wide Web to the public.
1990: The first ever IoT device is born: John Romkey creates a
toaster that could be turned on and off over the Internet.
1991: The first ‘web page’ is created by Tim Berners-Lee
1992: The first audio and video are distributed over the Internet.
Connectivity for PLCs is introduced.
1993: The White House and the UN go online.
1995: Amazon, Craigslist and eBay go live. The Internet’s
transformation to a commercial enterprise is largely completed.
1997: Wireless M2M technology becomes prevalent in industrial
settings.
1998: The Google search engine is born, changing the way users
engage with the Internet. The Ethernet becomes popular in
industrial environments.
1999: The Internet of Things term is coined by Kevin Ashton
2000: Yahoo! And eBay are hit by a large-scale DDoS attack,
highlighting the vulnerability of the Internet
2002: Cloud technology takes hold with the launch of Amazon
Web Services (AWS)
2004: The era of social media begins: Facebook goes live
2005: Roger Mougalas from O’Reilly Media coins the term Big
Data.
2006: AOL changes its business model, offering most services for
free and relying on advertising to generate revenue.
2008: A group of companies launched the IPSO Alliance to
promote the use of Internet Protocol (IP) in networks of ‘smart
objects’ and to enable the Internet of Things. Blockchain and the
first cryptocurrency ever invented are introduced to the world
through Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer
Electronic Cash System.
2008-2009: According to Cisco, the IoT was ‘born’ between 2008
and 2009 at the point when more ‘things or objects’ were
connected to the Internet than people.

The Third Industrial Revolution 1969

Another century passes, and we bear witness to the Third Industrial
Revolution. In the second half of the 20th century, we see the emergence of
yet another source of untapped, at the time, energy. Nuclear energy!
The third revolution brought forth the rise of electronics, telecommunications
and, of course, computers. The third industrial revolution opened the doors to
space expeditions, research, and biotechnology through the new
technologies.

In the world of the industries, two major inventions, Programmable Logic

Controllers (PLCs) and Robots, helped give rise to an era of high-level
automation.
The Third Industrial Revolution began in the ’70s in the 20th century through
partial automation using memory-programmable controls and computers. Since
the introduction of these technologies, we are now able to automate an entire
production process - without human assistance. Known examples of this are
robots that perform programmed sequences without human intervention.

Urbanization Continues After Industrialization Occurs

As industrialization creates economic growth, the demand for improved
education and public works agencies that are characteristic of urban areas
increases. This demand occurs because businesses looking for new
technology to increase productivity require an educated workforce, and
pleasant living conditions attract skilled workers to the area.

Once an area is industrialized, the process of urbanization continues for a

much longer period of time as the area goes through several phases of
economic and social reform. This concept is best illustrated by comparing a
city such as Bangkok, located in a lesser-developed country, with an
American city such as Los Angeles and a European city such as Berlin. Each
city has a progressively higher level of social, environmental and economic
prosperity achieved through increased education, government intervention,
and social reform.

The Third Industrial Revolution:

How the Internet, Green
Electricity, and 3-D Printing are
Ushering in a Sustainable Era of
Distributed Capitalism
Distributed Capitalism

Energy regimes shape the nature of civilizations—how they are organized,

how the fruits of commerce and trade are distributed, how political power
is exercised, and how social relations are conducted. To understand how
the new Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure is likely to dramatically
change the distribution of economic power in the twenty-first century, it is
helpful to step back and examine how the fossil fuel–based First and
Second Industrial Revolutions reordered power relations over the course
of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—are elite energies for the simple
reason that they are found only in select places. They require a significant
military investment to secure their access and continual geopolitical
management to assure their availability. They also require top down
command and control systems and massive concentrations of capital to
move them from underground to the end users. The ability to centralize
production and distribution— the essence of modern capitalism— is critical
to the effective performance of the system as a whole. The centralized
energy infrastructure, in turn, sets the conditions for the rest of the
economy, encouraging similar business models across every sector.

Virtually all of the other critical industries that emerged from the oil
culture—modern finance (invest in Bitcoin), telecommunications,
automotive, power and utilities, and commercial construction—and that
feed off of the fossil fuel spigot were similarly predisposed to bigness in
order to achieve their own economies of scale. And, like the oil industry,
they require huge sums of capital to operate and are organized in a
centralized fashion.

The emerging Third Industrial Revolution, by contrast, is organized around

distributed renewable energies that are found everywhere and are, for the most part,
free—sun, wind, hydro, geothermal heat, biomass, and ocean waves and tides.
These dispersed energies will be collected at millions of local sites and then bundled
and shared with others over a continental green electricity internet to achieve
optimum energy levels and maintain a high-performing, sustainable economy. The
distributed nature of renewable energies necessitates collaborative rather than
hierarchical command and control mechanisms.
The extraordinary capital costs of owning and operating giant centralized telephone,
radio, and television communications technology and fossil fuel and nuclear power
plants in markets is giving way to the new “distributed capitalism,” in which the low
entry costs in lateral networks make it possible for virtually everyone to become a
potential entrepreneur and collaborator, creating and sharing information and energy
in open commons. Witness twenty something young men creating Google,
Facebook, and other global information networks, literally in their college dorm
rooms and thousands of small businesses converting their buildings to green micro
power plants and connecting with one another in regional electricity networks.

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olution%3A,the%20discovery%20of%20nuclear%20energy.
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The proper way of breathing is
through the mouth
Fact: Mouth breathing allows air to enter and exit much faster. Nose breathing is the
proper way of breathing. It allows air to enter and any particle present in the air into
the nose and filtered by the cilia before it goes to the lungs.

According to professionals, nose breathing is the optimal way to breathe. They say
that nose breathing has numerous health benefits. It increases the circulation of
blood oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, it slows the breathing rate and improves
overall lung volumes.

Fallacy 11: Running is not for

everyone.
Fact: Running is for everyone, but not everyone is a good runner. Humans have
different movements and abilities, but that is not an excuse for running. Experts
believe that in a span of time, anyone who is eager to do running can develop his/her
running form with continuous running and with the help of coaches or trainers.

Running is a form of exercise that brings so many health benefits. Here are some of
the benefits of running and jogging.

● Helps to build strong bones

● Strengthens muscles
● Improves cardiovascular fitness
● Burns plenty of kilojoules
● Helps maintain a healthy weight
Fallacy 3: Exercise can turn fat into
muscles.
Fact: This is one of the biggest misconceptions about fitness and exercise. Muscle
and fat are two different kinds of tissues and cells, and one can never turn into the
other. The two have distinct compositions. Muscle tissue has protein, water, and
glycogen while fat is consists of bundles of fatty acids. Therefore, fatty acids can't
turn into proteins.

Fat

I once believed that the fallacy of exercise can turn fat into muscles. But as I get older, I’ve been
told that muscles and fats are different in terms of tissues and cells. Furthermore, Muscles have
water, glycogen and proteins. On the other hand, Fat has bundles of fatty acids that we intake
everyday. That’s why when we exercise, the possibility of turning muscle to fat would be
impossible. It’s just that through exercise we strengthen our muscles and lose fats at the same
time.

Speaking of Fat, another misconception I believe is that all Fats are harmful, I learned that
recently, it is not. According to different findings of researchers, fat is one of the principal fuels of
the body. Unsaturated fats, such as those found in nuts, avocados, and seafood, are necessary
fats that the body needs. They also aid in the formation of hormones and cells. Ofcourse, we
should not take these fats everyday because it can cause weight gain and other illnesses that
might affect your health.

Lastly, I also believed before that the more we sweat, the more we lose body fats. But the truth
is, Humidity and temperature affect sweating. Although we might not sweat as much in colder
climates and temperatures, our body fat is still used for energy. The sweat in our body signals
how heated our body was during exercise, therefore it cools down. As a result, a higher core
temperature does not imply increased calorie burning.
According to the video, what are these so-called “energy-efficient” that can be incorporated with
architecture?
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What makes these buildings energy efficient?
​
According to the guest speaker/s of the documentary, how these can help to reverse the Climate
Change we are experiencing?
​
How can energy-efficient buildings be changemakers in our future?
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As future architects, what can you contribute to our society when it comes to designing
“sustainable” or “green” architecture?